A building type unique to Gothenburg, Sweden, combining a brick ground storey with two wooden upper storeys, which arose when the county government overruled the city building council's limit on wooden houses.
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Origin Region In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, originated there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Landshövdingehus
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City bylaws in the 19th century ruled that houses made of wood could be a maximum of two storeys high
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a type of building unique to Gothenburg, Sweden
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was built 1875 in the district of Annedal
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